Mariah Carey will carry out “All I Need for Christmas Is You” at an awards present for the very first time at tonight’s Billboard Music Awards, and in a pre-show interview, she mirrored on a few of her favourite reminiscences with BiIlboard through the years.
“My favourite BBMAs reminiscence is once I received artist of the last decade,” she says of the respect she acquired in 1999. “I gave this sort of off-the-cuff speech. It was one among my favourite occasions at any awards present ever.”
As for her first Billboard Scorching 100 chart-topper, “Imaginative and prescient of Love,” Carey says the entire second was a whirlwind. “I feel I didn’t actually perceive the magnitude of that at the moment,” she remembers. “I’m fairly positive I celebrated. It’s somewhat bit blurry.”
Total on the Billboard charts, Carey has had 19 No. 1 Scorching 100 hits — essentially the most of any solo artist. She is the artist with essentially the most weeks at No. 1 (91). She is the feminine songwriter with essentially the most No. 1 hits (18). She is the one artist to achieve No. 1 together with her first 5 singles: “Imaginative and prescient of Love,” “Love Takes Time,” “Sometime,” “I Don’t Wanna Cry” and “Feelings.”
On the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, Carey will probably be honored with the Billboard Chart Achievement Award for “All I Need for Christmas Is You.” The vacation basic, which has climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 yearly since 2019, has up to now spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s flagship chart, turning into one among three Carey hits to log 10 or extra weeks within the high spot. It joins “One Candy Day,” a collab with Boyz II Males that spent a then-record 16 weeks at No. 1 in 1995-96, and “We Belong Collectively,” which spent 14 weeks on high in 2005.
Performances and awards will roll out throughout BBMAs and Billboard social channels, in addition to through BBMAs.watch, tonight starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
Going into tonight’s present, Taylor Swift is the high finalist on the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Introduced by Marriott Bonvoy, with nods in 20 classes. Wallen and SZA are runners-up, with 17 entries every. They’re adopted by The Weeknd (16); Drake and Zach Bryan (14); Luke Combs (10); 21 Savage, Metro Boomin and Miley Cyrus (9 every); Beyoncé and Rema (seven every); Dangerous Bunny and Pluma (six every); and Ariana Grande, Guetta, Eslabon Armado, Karol G, NewJeans and Selena Gomez (5 every).
